National Survey on Population and Employment, ENPE 2009 - Tunisia

Abstract --------------------------- ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 100% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS (INS) - TUNISIA ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* The survey aims at estimating the demographic and educational characteristics of the population. It also calculates the economic indicators of the population such as the number of active individuals, the additional demand for jobs, the number of employed and their characteristics,the characteristics of the unemployed and the unemployment rate. The results of this survey were compared with the results of the national survey on population and employment 2009. It should also be noted that the National Institute of Statistics -Tunisia uses the unemployment definition and concepts adopted by the International Labour Organization. This definition implies that, the individual did not work during the week preceding the day of the interview, was looking for a job in the month preceding the date of the interview, is available to work within two weeks after the day of the interview. Geographic coverage --------------------------- Covering a representative sample at the national and regional level (governorates). Analysis unit --------------------------- 1- Individual/person. Universe --------------------------- The survey covered a national sample of households and all individuals permanently residing in surveyed households. Kind of data --------------------------- Sample survey data [ssd] Sampling procedure --------------------------- ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 100% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS (INS) - TUNISIA ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* The National Institute of Statistics carried out the 2009 National Population and Housing Survey, which covered a sample of about 162,500 households representative of all households across the regions, distributed over 6,500 enumeration areas in all governorates, including their cities, towns, and rural areas.The sample is drawn from the frame of the 2004 General Census of Population and Housing. Mode of data collection --------------------------- Face-to-face [f2f] Research instrument --------------------------- Three modules were designed for data collection: - Household Questionnaire (Module 1): Includes questions regarding household characteristics, living conditions, individuals and their demographic, educational and economic characteristics. - Active Employed Questionnaire (Module 2): Includes questions regarding the characteristics of the employed individuals as occupation, industry and wages for employees. - Active Unemployed Questionnaire (Module 3): Includes questions regarding the characteristics of the unemployed as unemployment duration, the last occupation, activity, and the number of days worked during the last year...etc. Cleaning operations --------------------------- Harmonized Data ============ - SPSS software is used to clean and harmonize the datasets. - The harmonization process starts with cleaning all raw data files received from the Statistical Agency. - Cleaned data files are then all merged to produce one data file on the individual level containing all variables subject to harmonization. - A country-specific program is generated for each dataset to generate/ compute/ recode/ rename/ format/ label harmonized variables. - A post-harmonization cleaning process is then conducted on the data. - Harmonized data is saved on the household as well as the individual level, in STATA and converted to SPSS format.